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Learner internal psychological factors [PDF]
, 2012 Book synopsis: What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constraints and external factors shape acquisition?
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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On the domain-specificity of mindsets: The relationship between aptitude beliefs and programming practice [PDF]
, 2014 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2013 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted.
Ghinea, G, Scott, MJ
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
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Individual learner differences and distance language learning: an overview [PDF]
, 2006 No abstract ...
Hurd, Stella
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Context effects on second-language learning of tonal contrasts. [PDF]
, 2015 Studies of lexical tone learning generally focus on monosyllabic contexts, while reports of phonetic learning benefits associated with input variability are based largely on experienced learners.
Bowles, Anita R., Chang, Charles B.
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On the Relationship between Aptitude and Intelligence in Second Language Acquisition
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2004 Better understanding of the varied factors that account for successful second language acquisition is a goal that is of obvious interest to anyone within the field of language study.
Jim Teepen
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The Acoustic Dimension of Reading: Does Musical Aptitude Affect Silent Reading Fluency?
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 Fluent reading in a foreign language includes a complex coordination process of visual and auditory nature as the reading brain transforms written symbols into speaking auditory patterns through subvocalization (inner voice).
José Manuel Foncubierta +6 more
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The Effects of Spanish-Language Background on Completed Schooling and Aptitude Test Scores [PDF]
We investigate the effect of speaking Spanish at home as a child on completed schooling and aptitude test scores using data on Hispanics who grew up in the U.S. from the NLSY79.
Arthur M. Diamond Jr. +2 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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